Oh amphetamine dextroamphetamine, is there anything you can't cure?

Have you ever wanted to just...not drink? Or drink less? Because you sound pretty miserable in nearly all your posts about drinking.

i just dont like getting drunk anymore. the hangover throws me off for a few days. but i am becoming an expert and the continuous buzz. love the buzz.

@nicebrownboy: It cures my appetite.

I have forced myself to hurl oh-so-many times to relieve the hangover pain.

Garlic bread helps too.

I <3 u.
Sooo what I needed, as Gator-effing-aide is NOT working.

Kingsley Amis - overthink much? When I'm hungover, I'm just hungover. No vast shimmering metaphysical structure in sight. And it sucks, period. But then again, I'm not Catholic.

I do not drink enough to have gotten past hangovers. Mine are ususally epic, with lots of moaning and knashing of teeth and puking and swearing "I'm never drinking again!" Until I've mostly forgotten it, and I start again.

The only thing that helps me is throwing up, followed by large amounts of greasy food covered in cheese.

Metaphysical Hangover: a combination of "anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future"

I thought I was the only one....

What about the spiritual awakening that happens while drunk?

Like, OMG Oh my God, I will never drink this much again if you stop the spinning and/or vomiting.*

*This is usually a lie, but damn do I mean it at the time.

@gumbytime: Yeah, I haven't had a massive hangover for quite some time. Sometimes I wake up with a headache, but I usually have the foresight to take some Advil and get back to bed to sleep it off.

But, I worry less about hangovers and more about the fact that I cannot remember the last day I did not drink.

OMG its "el boracho" I still play Loteria with my boyfriends family all the time and we all get drunk even the four year old. But our real problem is the gambling.

I get a hangover after one drink. Even if said drink did not even get me buzzed. Curse you, Native American blood!

However much lover for any post that manages to touch upon binge drinking, Solzhenitsyn, and Dostoevsky in one fell swoop.

Blue Gatorade cures pretty much every hangover symptom I can think of. And, if you pull the trigger before you go to bed that can be hugely helpful. You feel less sick in the morning and the empty stomach speeds up the eating greasy foods process.

Okay, I really want to know why I never get hangovers. Because I have literally never had one and I'm a senior in college and drink enough to where that should not be true. Yet it is and I do not understand. I'm not complaining, I would just like to figure out the reason so that I can always do it and continue to avoid hangovers. Is it the particular things I drink? Because I don't drink beer or whiskey, because I don't like how they taste. Is that it? I drink wine, though, and that's supposed to give you hangovers, right? I do not understand these things called hangovers.

I rarely get hangovers, but that's just because I go from zero to DRUNK in approx 2.5 drinks, so I usually cut myself off, go home and eat popcorn after that 3rd drink.

@formerlyzivah: that would be *love

@Archetype: i hate throwing up. last time i got really drunk was with my husband. he kept telling me to throw up and i didnt want to. he threw up. i cried myself to sleep.

@nicebrownboy: Um... Amphetamine Dextroamphetamine addiction?

@nicebrownboy: I prefer methylphenidate. But it does NOT help with hangovers.

I have forced myself to puke many a time. I find the best hangover cure to be a McDonald's sausage biscuit and two Excedrin (if you can keep them down). The sausage biscuit's combination of grease and bread cannot be beat.

@girlscoutcookie: They come with age. I used to be able to drink oceans of booze without a problem. Then I turned 25, and it's been shit ever since.

I get the metaphysical hangover so, so badly. The physical effects of drinking too much are not bad enough yet (I'm only 2 years legal) to deter me at all, but god, I think twice about that last shot when I remember the extreme anxiety and guilt that it will probably cause the next day.

@girlscoutcookie: If you're in really good shape, your body may be able to process the alcohol better and faster?

Getting completely whacked-out stumbling drunk just isn't fun for me anymore, but I can coast smoothly through a bottle of wine over the course of several hours and enjoy it mightily and not get hungover the next day.

I don't know if it means I'm growing up or just better at drinking. I think it kind of scares me if it's the latter.

@Archetype: Though people might think puking is a symptom of bulimia, I think it cures a lot of things to the point that I will force myself to do it. Hangovers, a sore stomach, etc. - but in moderation, of course.

@formerlyzivah: True. Hangovers in your 30s are miserable and it just gets worse...

@girlscoutcookie: Mr Rhody doesn't get hangovers and he is so fucking pleased with himself about it that, in my hungover glory, I always consider punching him in the face. Nothing is worse than waking up next to someone who proclaims, "I feel FANTASTIC" after a night of hard drinking.

So own it. Just don't be smug about it.

@Rhody: Blue Gatorade on ice was my drink of choice when I was on coke binges. I can't drink it any longer.

@BiscuitDoughJones: Me, too. I can drink one beer or 45 martinis & wake up with the same affect. Is it our N.A. blood or just lamo tolerance.

Drink Gatorade & take a multi-vitamin before bed. It really helps.

@dotcomdork: Hahahahahaaaa, "in really good shape." Me. That's funny. I like you.

My husband stopped drinking, so my drinking has gone waaaay down. I can't say I miss hangovers AT ALL, as I always hated them so much.

I never felt metaphysical having one, just crappy and sorry for myself.

@AndSheWas: Well, I spent many years purging :-) But, no, throwing up once in awhile does not make a person bulimic. It helps when you're hungover or have food poisoning. I recently discovered that my body HATES shitake mushrooms.

I am getting nauseated just reading the comments.

@Alaverge5: Hold the phone....did you just say your boyfriend's family lets a four year old get drunk??

@Rhody: I love that.
"What flavor of Gatorade are you drinking?"
"Blue."

@girlscoutcookie: Hey it's the internet. We're all fabulously fit and gorgeous here. Seriously though, when I've been doing regular cardio, I'm less likely to feel the effects of booze the morning after. As long as I limit it to 3 or 4 drinks max. Anything more and I'm in bed all day.

Oh, and, "whiskey and wine and beer, which are, IMHO, the only alcoholic beverages really worth drinking."

Very funny Moe, L-O-L indeed.

I love to drink & am unapologetic about it. But, I need to be functional and so forth, so I can't get wasted all the time. So, I rarely do.

My best bud can do it & function & I don't know how she can.

@dotcomdork: I agree. It just stopped being fun. I don't really enjoy getting that drunk anymore, anyway. I'm an old biddy.

@Rhody: Actually, if I wake up after a night of drinking with friends and they're around and hungover, I usually act like I feel worse than I do so I have an excuse to eat a lot of taquitos.

@tscheese: I think you've just gotten smarter about it. Freshman year I would do shots or something super fast and end the night with my head in the toilet. Having learned to pace myself means I'm no longer That Girl. I choose to attribute it to being smarter about my drinking and not any increased tolerance because that would just bum me out.

You know how some people are genetically pre-disposed to become alcoholics? Both my father, brother and I believe we are genetically pre-disposed to NOT be alcoholics. No matter the drink, we all go from zero to hungover in like an hour. So the fun part kinda gets skipped.

When I get drunk, I never ever throw up that same night. I go to sleep, wake up at 5 am on the dot (every time, I swear), then proceed to "get sick" every 20 minutes for the next FIVE HOURS. No joke. And by "get sick" I mean sit on the toilet and explode whilst I puke up my guts (and bile, and ultimately painfully wretch up nothing) into the bathtub at the same time.

Sorry, TMI.

Point is. Drinking for me = no fun. So I have had to develop a hell of a great personality. Ugh.

@girlscoutcookie: You have never had a hangover because you are a senior in college. This will suddenly, and violently change in your late-20s. I kind of think it's your body's way of saying "okay enough with the rock and roll lifestyle, can we chill a teeny bit?"

@CaptainHangNail: I always found that whiskey helped settle that nicely. Yeah, it's a cycle.

@BiscuitDoughJones: LOL, yeah.....what is it? Grape?

Whatever it is, it's delicious.

@AndSheWas: Word salad. I can't even drink the things I used to love to drink anymore (like bourbon) since I turned 30. Anything crazier than vodka or beer turns me into a vegetable.

I drink massive amounts of water while drinking. It means I pee every 10 minutes, but also keeps me from getting such a severe hangover. WATER PEOPLE DRINK WATER WHILE DRINKING.

Everybody talks about the spiritual emptiness of the hangover, but no one talks about the spiritual rapture that happens when you stuff yourself full of pancakes, drink some coffee with a little whiskey in it, and discover that you no longer feel like death. Sometimes I think the blessed hour between when your hangover disappears and the moment your friends tell you the terrible things you said the night before is the best argument for being a drunk.

@tscheese: No worries. I am right there with ya.

I recently had to stop drinking because of being ill...and now I can manage 2 drinks without feeling like shit next day.

Youth and giddiness can get through the hangovers will you build up your tolerance when you first start drinking, but approaching 30 I just can't do it, so I think I have effectively retired myself from drunken debauchery by accident...

I also don't get the "guilt" hangover, just the physical symptoms.

Where you lurch out of bed too early, because you can't sleep anymore? And you wrangle the toilet with whatever parts of your body are wrassling with your internal contents?

And you curl up in front of your TV or your computer or whatever other form of entertainment you can comprehend, just to take your mind off, and you bind yourself up into an old hoodie that probably needs to be washed, and you can't decide whether you're chilled or overheated...

And then you slouch into a cup of coffee and a can of Raviolios that is totally inappopriate at 9:30AM but who gives a fuck and slowly you start to feel human again?

I kind of relish those few brief moments of turning human again. Hangovers suck, but curing them can be so satisfying.

@rosasparks: It's both. My hangovers are so bad, I pretty much just don't drink anymore. But not having a tolerance makes it worse, so I shouldn't drink, no matter how much I want to. It's a viscious cycle. Of not-drinking.

I'm confused. Does the break down of the methanol give you the shits or make you puke? Or does it just make your head hurt?

@Archetype: Yeah, right before I left a club last weekend, I took a gulp of warm beer that did not sit well. So I threw up in a garbage can outside the bar. Classy, I know, but I was able to keep drinking, and that's what it really all about, right folks?